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Hacker News (Sep 2023)

  1. Whistleblower CISO says PennState lied about IT security to win $2B from US gov

    56 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  2. Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback (2020)

    56 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  3. How Washington DC Got Its Metro

    56 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  4. Copper Be Gone: The Chemistry Behind PCB Etching

    56 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  5. Show HN: IncarnaMind-Chat with your multiple docs using LLMs

    56 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  6. Zero Effort Private Key Compromise: Abusing SSH-Agent for Lateral Movement

    56 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  7. Ask HN: One-person startups/SaaS that are profitable?

    55 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  8. WinRAR sold 5,449 licenses in a day

    55 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  9. What is a Jeffersonian dinner party?

    55 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  10. Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” [video] (2017)

    55 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  11. 26% of the top websites are now blocking GPTBot

    55 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  12. Gnome 45 to Break Extensions

    55 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  13. Xi’s Security Obsession Turns Ordinary Citizens into Spy Hunters

    55 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  14. Sketches of misfortune in an insurance trade card

    55 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  15. Clang-expand: Expand function invocations into current scope

    55 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  16. ArcEm – The Acorn Archimedes Emulator

    55 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  17. The pandemic your grandparents forgot about

    55 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  18. AIST Steel Wheel

    55 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  19. Don't "find" your niche, "develop" it

    55 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  20. Apple emergency updates fix 3 new zero-days exploited in attacks

    55 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  21. Phenylephrine for colds and allergies don’t work, FDA panel says

    55 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  22. MAC Address Vendor Lookup

    55 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  23. Jimmy Buffett has died

    55 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  24. Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state

    55 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  25. Textual Adds a Command Palette

    55 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  26. A portrait of Tenochtitlan -3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

    55 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  27. Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

    55 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  28. p2k23 Hackathon Report: Chasing memory corruptions

    55 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  29. The year Lou Reed gave up on music

    55 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  30. Throbol – The Robot Oriented Language

    55 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  31. Google Pays $10B a Year to Maintain Monopoly, US Says

    55 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  32. Biodistribution of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in human breast milk

    55 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  33. Ask HN: Turning off the programming mind during non-work hours

    54 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  34. Linux becoming a Windows / OS X clone

    54 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  35. Buy Cult of the Lamb now, cause we're deleting it on Jan first

    54 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  36. UI frameworks are stuck in the last decade

    54 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  37. TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu

    54 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  38. The last few polio survivors: Last of the iron lungs (2017) [video]

    54 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  39. Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release

    54 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  40. Four Korean universities evaluated LK-99: “Unable to discover superconductivity”

    54 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  41. Protohackers Learnings

    54 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  42. Cal Newport: Overstimulation Is Ruining Your Life

    54 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  43. Codeberg scaling issue mostly caused by software architecture

    54 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  44. Library of Short Stories – An online library of public domain short stories

    54 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  45. How Accurate Were EPAs Predictions of climate change from 40 years ago?

    54 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  46. Training repayment agreements trap employees in their jobs

    54 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  47. Performance Improvements in .NET 8

    54 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  48. The Gods of the Copybook Headings

    54 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  49. UK airport confiscates passenger's Flipper Zero

    54 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  50. Earth’s average 2023 temperature is now likely to reach 1.5 °C of warming

    54 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  51. Square is down

    54 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  52. U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households (2019)

    54 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  53. Evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging (2022)

    54 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  54. ‘Friends’ and ‘Seinfeld’ knew the cure for loneliness

    54 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  55. In-memory vs. disk-based DB: Why do you need a larger than memory architecture?

    54 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  56. Parallelizing non-linear sequential models over the sequence length

    54 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  57. Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

    54 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  58. A Hands-On Introduction to Machine Learning

    54 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  59. Profile-guided optimization in Go 1.21

    54 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  60. Ferrocene update

    54 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  61. Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS Apps

    54 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  62. Birds with more complex vocal skills are better problem-solvers

    54 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  63. Delphi 11 Community Edition

    53 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  64. Making the Distribution, Part 1

    53 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  65. Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?

    53 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  66. Radio Microsoft (1994)

    53 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  67. A Conversation with Renaissance Technologies CEO Peter Brown

    53 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  68. AOL Pretends to Be the Internet

    53 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  69. U.S. cancels program aimed at identifying potential pandemic viruses

    53 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  70. Silicon Valley’s elites can’t be trusted with the future of AI

    53 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  71. Common garden weeds in Southern California

    53 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  72. How to build your own living structures (1974, 2011)

    53 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  73. Corrosion: Rust Never Sleeps

    53 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  74. I worked in federal prison sweatshops for 23 cents an hour

    53 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  75. River is a visual connection engine

    53 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  76. Mark Cuban loses $870K in hot wallet hack

    53 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  77. Special-Use Domain Names

    53 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  78. Creating a fake Indian cricket league

    53 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  79. Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?

    53 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  80. Dlarc Amateur Radio Library Tops 90k Items

    53 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  81. The Scourge of Airport Noise

    53 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  82. Workers strike at all 3 Detroit automakers for bigger share of industry profits

    53 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  83. Cory Doctorow: ‘We do not have fast companies anymore’

    53 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  84. Windows leader Panos Panay is leaving Microsoft

    53 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  85. EU confirms six (mostly US) tech giants are subject to Digital Markets Act

    52 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  86. Accidental Empires, Chapter 11 – Font Wars (1992)

    52 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  87. I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script (2009)

    52 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  88. The story behind the Heliotrope Font (2021)

    52 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  89. The Māori and the Moriori

    52 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  90. On writing (or not)

    52 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  91. Notes on existential risk from artificial superintelligence

    52 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  92. Ask HN: I'm a SWE without a CS degree. Will online certs help me get into FAANG?

    52 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  93. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s War on San Francisco Politics Has Only Just Begun

    52 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  94. Starship is ready for its 2nd test flight

    52 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  95. GlazeWM: A tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar

    52 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  96. Woman loses over $44k after downloading third-party app to buy fish

    52 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  97. Stanford is a platform

    52 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  98. Show HN: Mel – The missing unsubscribe button for physical mail

    52 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  99. A poor man's guide to fine-tuning Llama 2

    52 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  100. Llama 2 on togetherAI is as bad of a privacy nightmare as OpenAI

    52 points • comment • sep 08, 2023